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Peter Higgs

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5438598&amp;oldid=2556268563" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh · dated 1974
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q402&amp;oldid=2542320094" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Higgs boson
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7374001&amp;oldid=2478723529" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 · from 1953 · to 1955
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1240569&amp;oldid=2552262201" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">professor emeritus · from 1996 · to 2024
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5175347&amp;oldid=2514443830" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cotham School · from 1941 · to 1946
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q844872&amp;oldid=2528840545" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hughes Medal · dated 1981

Wikidata describes Peter Higgs as British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024).

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